Hatcheck Girl : Poems Betty Liu Heel provides stability and traction

Heel provides stability and traction

luxuriating in the lush heat and brashness

and meditation

children of cursed parents

Hatcheck Girl : Poems Betty Liu Heel provides stability and tractionTony Whedon's new book The Hatcheck Girl vividly describes border crossings where language, culture and states of consciousness collide. In these richly layered poems about jazz most of the musicians we meet are sidemen: few are famous, most are notorious. They're united, as he says in his opening poem The Tradition of the New, by their devotion to the music and by their appetite for a note, a phrase to make it new . . . over and over. Whedon is a